Hi everyone

I’m running TrueNAS Community Edition 25.04 with kernel 6.12.15

and I recently installed a Sparkle Intel Arc A380 in my NUC 9 Extreme (NUC9i9QNX). The GPU works perfectly for hardware transcoding (Jellyfin → FFmpeg), but there’s no temperature or power telemetry exposed.

intel_gpu_top shows engine activity and frequency correctly, but no temperature or power lines, and there’s no /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/ directory at all.

Example output:

Intel DG2 (Gen12) @ /dev/dri/card0 – 1398/2446 MHz ENGINES BUSY Video 63% VideoEnhance 20%

Question: Is CONFIG_DRM_I915_HWMON (and other related CONFIG_HWMON options) currently disabled in the TrueNAS kernel build? If so, is there a plan to enable it in upcoming versions (e.g. TrueNAS 25.10) so that Intel Arc GPUs can report temperature and power and use proper fan control?

It looks like the kernel is already new enough (6.12) for DG2 telemetry, so I’m guessing it’s just a missing compile-time flag. Would appreciate any confirmation or roadmap info from the iX team.

Thanks! 🙏

is that true?

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I thought Vanguard had basically killed Riot games on Linux, but I just got this reply from a support ticket I opened.

New here- I'm probably not exactly unique in wanting to switch to Linux as a gamer following the Windows 10 end of support.

My current desktop doesn't seem to support Windows 11, and frankly I'm getting sick of Microsoft's nonsense. Between pushing my documents, desktop, and random game files onto a cloud storage system I didn't even want, putting ads on the start menu, and generally having been trying to be a proprietary monolith since before I was even alive, this final straw has pushed me to look into doing what I should've done a long time ago.

I'm a grumpy mid-30s gamer with about two thirds of a computer science degree (and hopefully soon, a decent programming/cybersec career). I feel like I should be more familiar with Linux than I am. But besides dabbling very lightly on virtual machines, I can't say I am.

With Linux getting a lot more gaming support in recent years and Microsoft being ever more obnoxious to put up with, I think it's well past time to change that.

So I'm looking for advice, tips, and general info as someone who predominantly understands Windows.

If I install Linux (and any distro advice is appreciated although I don't know how much real difference it makes day to day?), what changes do I need to get used to in day-to-day usage? And what do you wish someone had told warned?) you about before changing?

I'm expecting things to be relatively seamless- I use Firefox already with my bookmarks and passwords saved in the cloud. I can move all the important stuff on my boot drive onto another drive temporarily (I still have multiple old HDDs/SSDs connected in). My downloaded Steam games are mostly on my bulk hard drive rather than my boot SSD, but I'm prepared to have to re-download most of them. Are Steam Cloud saves cross-platform?

So I'm putting a lot of that out there because I find the best way to test my assumptions is to list them in a room full of expert subject nerds and letting them correct me on anything I'm getting wrong. (We all love doing that right?)

So besides all that. Suppose I've got my new Linux install up and running, what so I need to do? What's going to take getting used to? I know a lot of Linux users tend to use the command line for a lot of stuff- is that just about convenience or is there not always a good GUI? Any kind of references or help sheets anyone might recommend?

Hello, I've been trying to make heroic games run via steam on running inside a standalone gamescope session, but although the games appear to load, they're rendering outside of the screen as I can hear the audio, but all I see is the steam overlay.

I'm running arch and my system is full AMD with a 5700x with a 7800XT. steam and gamescope are both installed from the pacman official repos.

I'm running my gamescope session with steam like this:

/usr/bin/gamescope --mangoapp --adaptive-sync --hdr-enabled -r 120 -e -- /usr/bin/steam -steamdeck -steamos3

I've tried installing heroic either by AUR (not even heroic loads on screen) and flatpak (heroic does load on screen, but spawned games don'

I can make the screen render by disabling the steam integration removing the -e from the gamescope command, but that makes me lose the steam overlay, which is not great.

Tried to go for AI to get some clues, but all the LLMs sent me through rabbitholes on trying to force X11 sessions and sharing sockets and display environment variables which were probably unrelated. But it does look like it knows that the problem is that heroic is trying to render somewhere else other than the gamescope virtual screen.

I wonder if someone got this working as it should be a pretty common use case to add heroic games to steam whilst running in a gamescope session. I wonder how the steam deck manages to make that work.

Estoy pensando en pasarme a Linux, pero todavía hay algunos juegos que quiero seguir jugando, como Fortnite o Valorant, y por lo que he visto no se pueden correr en Linux.
Se puede hacer un dual boot con una versión de Windows sin tanto bloatware solo para jugar esos juegos, y una distro de Linux para el resto?
Si sí, qué distro me recomiendan y cómo se hace el dual boot?
Soy nuevo en esto, cualquier cosa se agradece.

It used to, but after i reinstalled Linux Mint it doesnt work.

I did install it on a different folder, but when i moved it to the default steam game folder, it still didn't work! (It always came up with an error saying the game closed unexpectedly)

When i reinstalled the game with a better connection, the game stopped showing the error, but it still wasn't launching! (But steam showed it was running)

After tinkering, the error started showing up again!

Please help!

Here are my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52 laptop specs:

OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon

CPU: Intel Core I5-8300H

iGPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (128mb vRAM)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (4096mb vRAM)

RAM: 16GB DDR4

Two SSDs: 1.Linux Mint (447GB) and 2.Virtual Box (118GB).

Hey everyone,

I'm planning to migrate my desktop PC from Windows 11 to Linux. I don't absolutely hate Windows, but I'd like to give Linux a try — especially now with the improvements in gaming support through Proton (thank you Gabe).

My main goal is to have my PC fully optimized for gaming, but I also use it for everyday stuff like office work and browsing, so the desktop experience and UI are also pretty importante to me.

I have an Nvidia graphics card (3070ti) and a Ryzen 7 5700X. From what I understand, Nvidia drivers are now officially available on Linux (I had the impression that in the past they weren’t licensed directly by Nvidia but rather community-made solutions). So I assume having an Nvidia GPU shouldn’t be a problem, right?

I'd really appreciate your advice on wich distro might be a good fit to start with.

Thanks in advance!

Hey all,

To my surprise, Roblox runs really well on my NUC running fedora silverblue, using SOBER.

That said I have this weird thing where I have an invisible field in the middle of the screen, like a login field, where when I press a button, stars appear as it thinks I'm typing. See screenshot.

Has Anyone got any idea how to disable it or make it disappear?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m pretty new to Linux and still figuring things out, so sorry if this is a basic question.

How can I tell whether a Steam game has a native Linux version and whether that’s the version currently installed — versus the Windows version running through Proton?

From what I can tell, the store page’s System Requirements section shows if a Linux version exists, but I’m not sure if that’s the only way. Also, when I enable “Show only games that run on Linux” in my library, everything still shows up — probably because of Proton compatibility.

Right now, I’ve set Proton Experimental as my default compatibility tool in Steam. Should I turn that off and enable Proton manually per game to check which ones are truly native?

Any tips or tricks for identifying native vs Proton games would be super appreciated. Thanks for helping a newcomer out! 🙏

ive tried multiple wine, wine ge and proton versions but it doesn't run
ive installed every dependency under the sun and it doesn't run
ive tried multiple sources for the game file but it doesn't run

on protondb it has a platnum rating but i cant get it to run no matter what

im on arch zen kernel using lutris to manage my non steam windows games

I can't get Wine to load certain games, because it complains about missing .dll files even though the .dlls are all present in the game directory. (See attached screenshot)

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This happens with some newer games, like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, as well as some older games like Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller. However, if I manually add the games in Lutris they will run perfectly. I'm not sure what the problem is with Wine. I installed all of the optional dependencies as well as steam-native-runtime which includes them anyway. So then why can't Wine find the DLLs? I've googled everywhere and found no solution so far.

OS: Arch Linux, with KDE Plasma 6.4.5 (Wayland)

Kernel: 6.17.4-zen2-1-zen

Wine: wine-tkg-staging-bin 10.17-1 (AUR)

DXVK: dxvk-async-git 2.7.1.r0.gc3dd74b-1 (AUR)

VKD3D: vkd3d-proton-mingw-git 2.14.1.r494.ge8b00efc-1 (AUR)

Mesa: 1:25.2.5-1

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700XT (all GPU drivers installed)

RAM: 32GB DDR4

So I'm currently running Arch linux and I've installed wine to play Path of Exile. I created a wine prefix in ~/Games/path-of-exile1 and installed the game to it.

Now my understanding of how to run the game is to use the command "WINEPREFIX=/home/cptmoler/Games/path-of-exile-1 wine /home/cptmoler/Games/path-of-exile-1/drive_c/GGG/PathOfExile_x64.exe" and it works great when I run the game from in the GGG folder.

But I recently ran the link that gnome created and for some strange reason the poe launcher thought I needed to redownload some of the game files. But I noticed that it downloaded them in the ~ folder and not in the wineprefix that I created.

So I tested this in the command prompt by making a temp directory in Downloads navigating to ~/Downloads/temp and then running the "WINEPREFIX=/home/cptmoler/Games/path-of-exile-1 wine /home/cptmoler/Games/path-of-exile-1/drive_c/GGG/PathOfExile_x64.exe" command and experienced the same behaviour as before where the poe launcher started downloading the files again.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask but can anyone figure out what I'm doing wrong or why I'm seeing this behaviour from wine?

So I scrambled myself a somewhat decent ITX mini PC with parts I bought online mostly 2nd hand(except for the case, and CPU cooler). While I'm not a "serious" gamer of any kind, I like to play some things every now and then, not too demanding, and not too competitive, just a regular "average gamer Joe" here you might say.
With all that in mind, it's obviously a budged build, and it consists of an older AM4 mobo/cpu combo B450i with a Ryzen 5700G, Radeon RX6600 and a 32G RAM on 3200Mhz CL16.
All this costed me about 500ish EUR, which I think it's a decent build as pretty much everything I tried so far is having 0 issues playing on High presets with a stable 60fps regardless.
It's a whisper quiet system as I only have a tower style cooler on the CPU, which is basically not allowing the CPU to go anywhere near 60C, in gaming, and same goes with the GPU.

Anyways... Enough backstory, and enough said about this pile 2nd hand hardware(junk?) :)

Everything went smooth in terms of installation of the OS as it's not my 1st time with this, and before anyone say something like "You should use Bazzite, you twat" or some other similar distro, I would absolutely say No to that, not because they are bad distros in any way, it's just a personal preference, and that's the beauty of Linux, regardless of which distro you are using, as long as it works for what you need, it's all good, so please.

Everything is running smooth enough, and I'm basically having no issues with anything really, EXCEPT this one thing that's slightly bugging me, and it's not something deal breaking either.

For some odd reason when I chose to show these statistics/metrics where it shows the fps, frame time, load, wattage usage, temps, etc. it's not showing the Wattage for the CPU, while everything else is displaying just fine.

It's weird because on another similar system that is using Bazzite, this is showing up just fine, just not on SteamOS(latest stable) so I wonder, It may be something that is not allowed on kernel level, or there may be some packages that are missing here, even though I'm not too deep into Linux in general, I barely only have a basic-basic understanding of how things work...

Soo... What can I do to try and understand exactly what's wrong here, how critical it may be, or may not be, and what can I do to try and find out what's going on, so it can be resolved if possible?

Any help and/or tips are highly appreciated, just please don't advertise different distros... Please. Thank You :)

If forces the devs to maintain the 3 serie that instead of making something new in the 4 serie

wanting to try out and use linux on my main pc, I was looking into using steam os however have heard it's not quite stable and nvidia gpus don't really work on the software yet. I have heard of bazzite but don't know too much about that or how good that works on nvidia gpus or gaming functionability. is anyone able to help answer if any of those os's are worth it at the time being?

Hello people. I would like you to help me choose which distro I can use for everyday use (I currently use a dual boot with Windows and Pop_Os); I usually play online games, edit videos, stream. Pop_Os is slow on my PC even though I have no programs installed and every time I log in I have to update things. What recommendations do you give me? Thank you